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The Tear Drop Monument By Pam Teel “To the Struggle Against World Terrorism” also called “The Tear Drop Memorial” stands at the end of the former Military Ocean Ter minal in Bayonne, New Jersey, and is the first thing you see as you approach New York City by ship from the Atlantic, well before the Statue of Liberty comes into view. It is a 30-meter-tall slab of steel and coated in bronze, with a large jagged crack running down the middle. An im mense stainless-steel teardrop hangs inside the crack. The eleven sides of the monument's base bear granite name plates, on which are etched the names of those who died in the September 11 attacks and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The monument was a gift from the people of Russia to the United States. Vladimir Putin was himself there when construction began, and Bill Clinton attended the dedication ceremony in 2006. Since then, not much has been written about it. In fact, many people don’t even know about it. “The Tear Drop Memorial” was made by Mos cow-based sculptor Zurab Tseretel who flew to New York shortly after the September 11 at tacks and visited Ground Zero. He decided that he wanted to create a memorial to the victims. The entire structure was designed and built in Russia, transported in pieces to the U.S., and as sembled in Harbor View Park on the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor. It took a year to construct. The remarkable view from this beautiful two acre public park on the New Jersey side of New York Harbor includes both the World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. The bronze mon

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